Shot towers?

Do any of you people know what GDW means in regards to building material?


Somewhere, maybe even on this list, I saw mentioned something being 60 mi
east of NYC, wouldn't that be in the middle of the ocean somewhere?


I got this piece from another list I'm on and thought you folks might find
it interesting.  How much does such real estate sell for now?

From the "New York Times" (New York, N.Y.), 19 February 1859, page 4:

REAL ESTATE.--The speculation in lots near the Central Park is
increasing instead of abating, as many predicted that before this
time it would do. Indeed, the speculative feeling was never so high
as it is at present. One fact, illustrative of the demand for real
estate in that vicinity, is worth mentioning. Yesterday, six lots on
the south-east corner of Fifth-avenue and Sixty fourth-street--four
of them fronting the avenue--sold for $17,500. For the information of
distant readers we may mention that the lots are 25 feet by 100, and
that the property referred to is four and a half miles above the City
Hall. It was purchased on speculation. There is a wide-spread and
eager desire to get hold of land in the Central Park region--the
belief prevailing that when finished, will constitute a paramount
attraction, and that the highest prices as yet paid, however
extravagant they may be deemed, are far below what will eventually be
realized.

It is not to be concealed, however, that there are two opinions in
regard to this matter. One class of our capitalists refrain wholly
from the investments in question, regarding them as extravagant, and,
to a large extent, visionary. But the other class, equally shrewd and
judicious, have no such fears. On the contrary, they think they
clearly see the road to fortune in the path they are pursuing. A
large number who have bought lots near the Park hold them for their
own use, and are ready to build costly edifices the moment the
streets in that quarter of the City are graded and sewered. Until
this is done building is, of course, out of the question. Little
time, however, will be lost in effecting these improvements, or in
pushing forward the completion of the Park itself; and ere long that
region, though formerly regarded as very far "up-town," will be
filled with wealth and magnificence.

Those topics should keep you guys busy for a while and give Pam's sex life
a rest.  Ruth



At 12:23 PM -0500 2/20/04, [log in to unmask] wrote:
In a message dated 2/20/2004 11:04:13 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:

Isn't there (at least theoretically) some worthy topic somewhere on the
scale between surplus trailers and Pam's sex life?

Ralph

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